Thailand
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or...
- News items in the archive
- 448
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Thailand is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 448 news items on Thailand, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- FEBRUARY 16, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Li Nong Chermeu, 24, and Buatong Santhi, 42, were sentenced...
Li Nong Chermeu, 24, and Buatong Santhi, 42, were sentenced to death for possessing 70,000 speed pills with intent to sell
- FEBRUARY 14, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Corrections Department director-general Siva Saengmanee...
Corrections Department director-general Siva Saengmanee said that relatives of condemned prisoners may be invited to witness lethal injections
- JANUARY 30, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored...
Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet endorsed a government-sponsored bill to change the country's method of capital punishment, replacing the traditional gunning-down of convicts on death row with more humane lethal injections
- JANUARY 24, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Chiew-ming sae Chow and Suvit Lachan, two drug dealers...
Chiew-ming sae Chow and Suvit Lachan, two drug dealers were sentenced to death for possession of 94,000 speed pills for sale
- JANUARY 9, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Welder Saeng-Un Udom, 22, a Thai national was sentenced...
Welder Saeng-Un Udom, 22, a Thai national was sentenced by the Singapore High Court to hang for murdering Mr Weerasak Suebban, a fellow worker after an argument on June 23, 2000
- JANUARY 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty applies in Thailand to heroin or...
The death penalty applies in Thailand to heroin or amphetamine drug trafficking and especially where the prisoner is found guilty after pleading not guilty at the start of their trial
- JANUARY 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
It is never known in advance when a death warrant is...
It is never known in advance when a death warrant is to be issued, and executions are performed only once in a while
- JANUARY 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Capital punishment sentences are mostly commuted under...
Capital punishment sentences are mostly commuted under Royal clemency
- JANUARY 1, 2001ThailandDEATH PENALTY
According to Section 31 of the Constitution, "A person...
According to Section 31 of the Constitution, "A person shall enjoy rights and liberties in his/her life and person
- DECEMBER 12, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A bill to ban the death penalty and life imprisonment...
A bill to ban the death penalty and life imprisonment for juvenile offenders was submitted by the Attorney-General's office to be put on the agenda for a cabinet meeting
- OCTOBER 31, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced Anupat Saefan to death...
The Criminal Court sentenced Anupat Saefan to death for possessing 994,000 amphetamine tablets with intent to sell
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined...
Appeal Court Judge Jaran Pukditanakul broadly outlined key areas that the National Human Rights Commission needed to address, including a study of whether existing laws and government rules and regulations infringed on or contained elements which violate
- AUGUST 31, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Criminal Court sentenced to death Somsak Sinkhao,...
The Criminal Court sentenced to death Somsak Sinkhao, Thawil Srilimpanon, Worachet Yakhet, Pitak Pisailert, and Pathomchai Walee-anurak
- AUGUST 19, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Four men were sentenced to death for possessing 800,000...
Four men were sentenced to death for possessing 800,000 methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- AUGUST 12, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed two Thai men in Mecca after...
Saudi Arabia executed two Thai men in Mecca after they were found guilty of smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia
- AUGUST 9, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Flt Lt Prachin Imcharoen, 56, Nuang Kruchwong, 44,...
Flt Lt Prachin Imcharoen, 56, Nuang Kruchwong, 44, Vichien Sriyatyaem, 52, and Booncherd Yoddee, 30, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for possessing 40,000 methamphetamine pills with intent to sell
- AUGUST 1, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court passed a verdict on an amphetamine's...
The Supreme Court passed a verdict on an amphetamine's case, sentencing a millionaire to execution by firing squad
- JULY 31, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced seven people to...
The Bangkok Criminal Court sentenced seven people to death in three separate drug trafficking cases
- JULY 20, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two Burmese men were sentenced to death by the Criminal...
Two Burmese men were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for a series of crimes that culminated in five murders
- JULY 7, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The King commuted the death sentence of two Israeli...
The King commuted the death sentence of two Israeli drug traffickers to life imprisonment
- JUNE 2, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death...
Two members of a drug gang were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court for possessing 190,000 speed pills with intent to sell
- MAY 28, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim...
A woman's pressure group, comprising mainly Muslim women, was pushing the government to get tough with sex criminals
- JANUARY 30, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged Prime Minister...
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) urged Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai to set up an independent committee comprising various neutral parties to look into the storming of the Ratchaburi hospital
- JANUARY 29, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
The bodies of 10 hostage-takers who were killed by...
The bodies of 10 hostage-takers who were killed by Thai commandos on after a 24-hour hospital siege in Ratchaburi are rotting rapidly in temporary crypts instead of being taken to a police hospital where it can be preserved for examination
- JANUARY 27, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Human rights groups stepped up the pressure on the...
Human rights groups stepped up the pressure on the Thai government after more hostages, who all escaped unharmed, came forward with evidence that some of the gunmen were summarily executed
- JANUARY 25, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Thai officials denied allegations that Burmese gunmen...
Thai officials denied allegations that Burmese gunmen holding an estimated 700 hostages at a hospital were shot in cold blood
- JANUARY 24, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
10 Myanmar guerrillas of the God's Army who took over...
10 Myanmar guerrillas of the God's Army who took over a hospital and held 700 people hostage were all found dead, with single gun shot wounds to the head after Thai commandos stormed the building
- JANUARY 5, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Prison officials said nine people, including five foreigners,...
Prison officials said nine people, including five foreigners, are on death row in Thailand, all for heroin trafficking
- JANUARY 5, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Israel warned Bangkok that bilateral relations could...
Israel warned Bangkok that bilateral relations could suffer if it executes Yosef Ohana and Avraham Huri, two Israelis sentenced in 1997 for trying to smuggle 2
- JANUARY 4, 2000ThailandDEATH PENALTY
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in...
Hla Win, a 60-year-old Myanmar man was executed in Thailand for attempting to smuggle 11